What's the difference between leonine and lionlike?

Leonine


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Had that argument been true, British businesses would be in leonine form by now, instead of their current chronic enfeeblement.
  • (2) He looks leonine, the physique of a young Burt Reynolds with the face of Mr Potato Head.
  • (3) The plaques present on the face gave the appearance of a 'leonine facies'.
  • (4) However, some of the symptoms are more in favor of SS, such as leonin face, palm and sole hyperkeratosis and changes in pigmentation.
  • (5) The Republican’s leonine menace even turned on the moderators at Washington University, demanding half a dozen times why they were interrupting him but not asking tougher questions of Clinton.
  • (6) His film debut was as a Neanderthal in Quest for Fire ; his most famous role, leonine, not simian, was opposite Linda Hamilton in Beauty and the Beast – I'll let you guess which he was; and his happiest collaboration and hugest success was playing the son of the devil himself, in Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy .

Lionlike


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a lion; brave as a lion.

Example Sentences:

Words possibly related to "leonine"

Words possibly related to "lionlike"